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How E.T. Became More Than A Movie For Director Steven Spielberg Universal Pictures By Christian Gainey/Oct. 8, 2022 10:00 pm EST Steven Spielberg has a lot to be proud of as a filmmaker. It’s impressive for a director to create one film that becomes a classic or generation-defining film, and Spielberg has created several. “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” the “Indiana Jones” franchise, “Jaws” — the man is unstoppable. His innate ability to tap into childhood wonder has produced some of the best kid’s films ever, including 1982’s “E....

How Sergio Leone’s Man With No Name Trilogy Influenced Puss In Boots: The Last Wish [Exclusive] Universal Pictures By BJ Colangelo/Dec. 21, 2022 3:35 pm EST If you would have told 11-year-old me that I’d be in my 30s and still talking about the “Shrek” cinematic universe … I probably would have believed you. For over 20 years, “Shrek” has permeated pop culture with merchandising, TV specials, short films, a Broadway musical, themed raves (no, seriously), and a spin-off series that has turned into its own bonafide franchise....

How She-Hulk Sets Up The Return Of Tim Blake Nelson’s The Leader In Captain America: New World Order Universal Pictures By Jeremy Mathai/Sept. 22, 2022 11:29 am EST This post contains spoilers for the latest episode of “She-Hulk: Attorney At Law.” Another week, another episode of “She-Hulk” that goes out of its way to tell a refreshingly self-contained story of a day in the life of Jennifer Walters (Tatiana Maslany) … though not without dropping its latest hint tying itself together with future installments in the Marvel Cinematic Universe....

Hulu’s Devil In The White City Series Has The Good Taste To Cast Keanu Reeves Lionsgate By Danielle Ryan/Aug. 4, 2022 12:39 pm EST An adaptation of Erik Larson’s non-fiction historical narrative “The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America” has been in the works for over a decade, with talks of Leonardo DiCaprio attached to star going back as far as 2010....

A perfect fit for Big Mouth Netflix Knight’s style made him an immediate and perfect fit for “Big Mouth,” which is an honest and profane look at what it’s like to be around a bunch of hormone-crazy kids going through puberty. That whole show is about finding a little bit of authenticity in the absurd and offensive, which was Knight’s bread and butter. The young comedian was also breaking into film, having recently wrapped his work on Chelsea Peretti’s directorial debut, titled “First Time Female Director....

James Gunn Brought One Of The Suicide Squad Actors To The MCU In The Guardians Of The Galaxy Holiday Special Marvel Studios By Ernesto Valenzuela/Nov. 25, 2022 3:00 pm EST It’s no secret that James Gunn loves collaborating with the same actors over multiple projects, no matter how big or small the roles may be. Take Michael Rooker, for example: The actor has significant roles in the “Guardians of the Galaxy” films but is a throwaway character in “The Suicide Squad,” used as cannon fodder for an explosive opening scene....

Justin Roiland Isn’t Looking To End Rick And Morty Anytime Soon Adult Swim By Ernesto Valenzuela/Aug. 22, 2022 2:58 pm EST The Adult Swim staple “Rick and Morty” is gearing up to release its sixth season on September 4, 2022, and the series shows no signs of slowing down. Originally premiering in December of 2013, “Rick and Morty” has since gone on to only increase in popularity with the release of each new season....

Laura Hasn’t Slept, The Short Film That Inspired Smile, Is Now Streaming Online Paramount Pictures By Shania Russell/Nov. 30, 2022 3:11 pm EST Parker Finn’s “Smile” has made scary good money at the box office. Officially declared the biggest original horror movie of the year, it has crossed the $200 million mark and far surpassed its $17 million budget. After that kind of success, Finn is looking at a bright (and horrific) future in the industry....

So what happens in Taxi Driver again? Columbia Pictures Travis Bickle (De Niro) is a lonely Vietnam vet adrift in New York. Suffering from insomnia, he whiles away his nights in porno theaters before taking a job as a cabbie. Prowling Manhattan looking for fares, he views humanity with disgust, yearning for the day when “a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.” Alienated and angry, Bickle has a brief brush with normality when he intrigues a smart young campaign volunteer, Betsy (Cybil Shepherd)....

Only room enough for one drill sergeant Paramount Pictures “An Officer and a Gentleman” stands in contrast to Kubrick’s cynical portrait of the American war machine. Richard Gere plays Zack Mayo, a naval candidate under Foley’s training. Foley is just as demanding and foul-mouthed as Hartman; “Full Metal Jacket” even reuses Foley’s line that only “steers and queers” come out of Oklahoma (albeit with the state in question stopped for Texas)....

Millie Bobby Brown Struggled Through Eleven’s Waffle Eating On The Set Of Stranger Things Netflix By BJ Colangelo/Nov. 9, 2022 9:48 pm EST It’s difficult to fully encapsulate how strong the influence of “Stranger Things” has been on pop culture. Last season’s inclusion of Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” skyrocketed the nearly 40-year-old song to the top 10 on the Billboard charts, and in-universe pop culture references are often given a new lease on life after appearing on the popular show....

The Bear’s Kitchen Lingo, Explained FX By Danielle Ryan/July 11, 2022 4:00 pm EST One of the things that sticks with you the longest after working in kitchens — besides the burns scars — are the sounds. The clicking of a gas stove trying to catch, the screechy crunch of orders printing on tickets, the clanging and banging of pots and pans, and the constant din of swearing and shouting. Everyone who’s worked in a kitchen has the sound that occasionally wakes them up in a cold sweat — for me it’s an actual call bell, like you’d see on a hotel lobby desk....

The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power Season 2 Announces New Directors Ben Rothstein/Prime Video By Jeremy Mathai/Dec. 14, 2022 12:52 pm EST Season 1 of the generally well-received “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” series came to an epic and satisfying end exactly two months ago, but fans of the sprawling and large-scale production knew that they would have to settle in for quite a long wait before seeing where the adventure took all our favorite heroes and villains next....

The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power Trailer: Time To Go Back To Middle-Earth Prime Video By Jenna Busch/July 14, 2022 8:45 am EST The new trailer for the Prime Video series “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” is finally here. After a Twitter tease last week which showed characters from all over Middle-earth gazing with worry at a falling star (from which a man emerges in an earlier trailer), we have a more in-depth look at this prequel from the Second Age, thousands of years before Peter Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit” trilogies....

Tim Burton Calls Batman 1989 A ‘Lighthearted Romp’ Compared To Modern Batman Movies Warner Bros. By Matt Rainis/Oct. 30, 2022 5:00 pm EST There’s nothing film executives love more than greenlighting Batman films. You’re a young executive looking to make a big splash at your studio? Pitch a Batman reboot! You’re an older executive on a cold streak trying to make a movie that young people will actually go out and see?...

Why Andrew Garfield Tries To Never Watch His Own Films Sony Pictures By Erin Brady/July 12, 2022 5:12 pm EST Watching yourself in something can be really awkward. Whether it’s a home video shot by family or full-length feature films, that weirdness of seeing yourself how other people see you never goes away. This type of reaction is actually backed up by psychology due to a phenomenon called confirmation bias. The Review of General Psychology defines confirmation bias as “the seeking or interpreting of evidence in ways that are partial to existing beliefs, expectations, or a hypothesis in hand....

Why The Black Panther Movies Don’t Feature ‘Villains,’ According To Ryan Coogler Marvel Studios By Tyler Llewyn Taing/Nov. 10, 2022 7:03 pm EST Ryan Coogler’s “Black Panther” changed the game for the Marvel Cinematic Universe when it was released in 2018. Though Chadwick Boseman played a supporting role as T’Challa in “Captain America: Civil War,” Coogler’s solo film acts as a fully fledged reintroduction into the titular king and his afrofuturist society of Wakanda....

The most electrifying man in all of entertainment NBC In the third act of “Black Adam,” when Kahndaq’s protector seemingly defeats Ishmael by killing him before using the Crown of Sabbac, Adam is filled with guilt and reveals to Aldis Hodge’s Hawkman that his story has been told incorrectly for thousands of years. He’s not the real champion that everyone thinks that he is. The ancient Council of Wizards actually gave the powers of Shazam to his son, a young slave boy named Hurut....

Bodies Bodies Bodies Ending Explained: A Smart Horror Satire Ends On A Laugh A24 By Valerie Ettenhofer/Aug. 15, 2022 4:05 pm EST Ahead of its release, A24’s “Bodies Bodies Bodies” billed itself as a satirical, Zoomer-skewering slasher, crammed with jokes about the pettiness of its irritating cast of characters. That version of the movie would be plenty entertaining in itself, but in practice, it turned out to be something even more interesting than that: an “And Then There Were None”-style story about young adults whose privileges, problems, and hard-wired sense of distrust leads them to a point of total meltdown over the course of a single night....

Daniel Craig Spent Months Relearning His Knives Out Accent For Glass Onion Lionsgate By Michael Boyle/Aug. 29, 2022 1:24 pm EST One of the best parts about watching a British actor in an American movie is listening to them attempt (with varying success) to sound like any other American. Most of the time you get an actor who’s reasonably convincing; there are little slip-ups you’ll notice if you’re on the lookout for it, but usually nothing crazy enough to break immersion....